Saturday, November 21, 2009

I Love Softies

I have been busy with sewing lately, but just haven't quite finished enough to take photo's.

The witches costume was finished and waiting for my niece to turn up and try it on. I was going to take a pic of it then to show, but she arrived at my home while I was at work and rang me at work to say thanks and took off with it.

I have also nearly finished Xmas stocking for a work colleague. Will not say much more about it as I will do that when I can take a photo. I will say however that it is a Tone Finnager pattern.

I do have some finished projects that I completed awhile ago and just waiting for me to get off my lazy bum and blog them

This is Ducky. I love Ducky and he still lives with me. I learn't a new skill during the making. It was in constructing his beak. At the start it looked difficult and maybe too involved for a lazy girl like me but I wanted the softie badly so I had to make it. And let me tell you! The processes involved in this ducks construction were extremely easy. Yes even the beak. If you would like to have a go at making one yourself, visit "The Long Thread" here.

It's hard to judge the size of this owl from this picture, and since I don't have him anymore, I will guess he was/is about 30 - 40cm in height. I gave him to my grandma on her 81st birthday.

I made him using up some scrap fabrics and recycled fabric from old jeans. I love his golden eyes the most and the fact that I can't find any one thing that I would alter. You all know that we sewers are our own worst critics and find faults with what we make that nobody else would even notice. This owl is one of the few exceptions. I have no itch to undo and redo any part of him. It leaves you feeling completely satisfied and on a sewers high for a day or so.

For those who want to know about the designer and pattern I will go now and dig out the magazine. I do know that the pattern came from a Australian sewing magazine, "Handmade".

I found it! I am not surprised to find the designer is "Jhoanna Aranez" of One Red Robin fame. The issue of Handmade magazine is Vol 25 No3.

That's it for today as I want to show you my current projects and must finish them first.